Track friction in downstream package ecosystem

[luzpaz]

Current Snapshot of Friction in package ecosystem

TODO

• Alpine Linux
• Arch Linux
• FreeBSD https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=273616
• Gentoo https://bugs.gentoo.org/913756
• chocolatey RFP - friction chocolatey-community/chocolatey-package-requests#1449
• OpenMandriva [Request] Friction OpenMandrivaAssociation/distribution#3011
• winget [Package Request]: friction microsoft/winget-pkgs#119024
• nixos friction-graphics: init at 1.0.0-rc.2 NixOS/nixpkgs#322957

[rodlie]

Also note that I have signed up Friction as a publisher on the Microsoft Store, will (try to) publish Friction on the store for the next release.

[luzpaz]

Winget has added friction.

[rodlie]

Nice 👍

[luzpaz]

• bumped winget, hopefully they'll update to beta2
• freebsd closed the ticket request

[rodlie]

bumped winget, hopefully they'll update to beta2

Should they? I assume they offer latest stable (0.9.6.1).

freebsd closed the ticket request

We don't support it (will not build/work), so does not matter.

[luzpaz]

Should they? I assume they offer latest stable (0.9.6.1).

Good point. I just altered request to bump to latest stable.

[rodlie]

Not the end of the world if they offer beta's, v1.0 stable will be done by the end of the month.

Regarding distros:

Friction currently needs specific versions of various dependencies to work properly and the various distros will not be able to offer them, and as such they will always offer a inferior version of Friction. Something I really don't want, it means more bug reports not related to Friction.

IMHO I think we should just offer an official flatpak (together with the other binaries we have), most distro support/use flatpak.

[luzpaz]

Something I really don't want, it means more bug reports not related to Friction.

It's true.. and I hear that. On the other hand, it also gets the word out about Friction when downstream repos offer it. It becomes inevitable either way if Friction gets popular.

[rodlie]

On the other hand, it also gets the word out about Friction when downstream repos offer it

Yeah, I understand that, but it's not important to me. Your random Linux user is not the target audience. "Getting the word out" means reaching out to the target users, animators, designers etc. Through social media, forums, (review) websites etc.

Currently this happens "organically" through word of mouth. This could be improved, but I have not put any effort into it (we have a bluesky/mastodon profile where I post releases), as more users means more work/noise for me ;) (no disrespect to any users)

As long as this is a (unpaid) spare time project I don't want too much attention. This project exist to make my job easier, not consume my spare time in return ;)

[luzpaz]

Fair. I will respect your wishes. Closing this ticket, ITC.